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Affiliated Universities The University of Texas at Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu

The University of Texas at Dallas offers high quality study and research opportunities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. 148 degrees are available: 31 at the doctoral level, 66 masters and 51 undergraduate degrees. UTD comprises seven schools: Arts and Humanities, General Studies, Human Development, Management, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences, and the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. It was founded in 1962 as a private research institute for graduate studies and later became a part of The University of Texas System. In September 1975, UTD admitted its first junior and senior level students. In January 1990, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the Legislative Initiative to expand the University. Enrollment is now at an all-time high of 15,783 students. The University maintains exchanges of faculty and students with colleagues from Africa, Barbados, China, Greenland, India, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. Collaborative research projects in Accounting, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Geophysics, Meteorology, Microbiology, and Geology are being conducted in these and other countries. Special facilities at UTD include the Center for International Accounting Development, the Joint Center for Management Studies (with China), the Center for Lithospheric Studies, the Center for Translation Studies, and the Center for Space Sciences.

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